SEO is all about promoting and optimizing your website in the search engine. On-page Optimization is considered as a primary or first step towards SEO strategy. On-page optimization becomes helpful in increasing the visibility of your website and making your site more friendly with the search engine. It helps in improving the visual scene of your site by adding title and meta tag, content, keyword, internal link structure, sitemap, robots.txt and many more. After completing on-page process you can go for off-page techniques which helps in building quality backlinks and traffic and brings your site at the top of search engine.
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Thu Jul 18, 2013 8:57 am

hiltonclaryNew Member

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According to me, the very first step in SEO should be checking that the website has crawled or not. If the website is not crawled, then it should be submitted manually to all search engines. The work won't affect until and unless a web-page get crawled and indexed. Crawling and indexing is the first step to get into SERP.

Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:53 pm

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I think the step before that is Content.

Content is essentail. Put some content on your site and update it on a regular basis. Then move on to the next steps, like creating backlinks, etc.

Totally agree that the first step is to ensure that you are in Google's index in the first place - If you do a search and enter site:youwebsite.com you can see alj the pages Google knows about, If it comes back with nothing them you need to get it submitted

Sat Oct 26, 2013 10:31 am

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hiltonclary not sure about all search engines - In the UK Googke has a 90% share of the search engine market with BIng and Yahoo having most fo the rest

Sat Nov 30, 2013 10:40 am

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Do your marketing and online visibility natural, and you don't have to care about search engines.

Wed Dec 11, 2013 2:07 pm

Eva55Member

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i totally agree with Kumar that on page optimization is the first thing to do in SEO that starts when you select your domain. Many people don't understant the importance of on page SEO and they just think that off page SEO would do the trick for them but unfortunately it merely happens that only off page SEO would work for a website in getting a top ranking on google. On page SEO helps a lot in getting quick and long lasting results from off page SEO working.

Fri Dec 13, 2013 11:17 am

bermudaContributing Member

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Truth is, without having a solid website which has great on-page score, even gathering packs of links from numerous sources would not seem enough to ensure some decent ranks will be achieved.

Although links and other off-page elements seem so significant from various aspects, but at the end of the day when the audience arrive at websites, they will need to find good contents, along with titles, descriptions, H tags and the other relevant on-page stuff which actually complement off-page area.

Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:58 am

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what is first step of seo?

Off Page SEO
White Hat SEO

Both Are Best SEO For Website

Tue Jan 07, 2014 9:40 am

ArtashNew Member

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The first step is to do a research of your competitors and define your goals that you want to achieve. You should check their presence, the most important sources that their getting their backlinks. In addition you should check your current SERPs manually, via Google Webmasters and Google Analytics which will be helpful for your further steps to go forward

Tue May 27, 2014 2:42 pm

Ron0New Member

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First step of SEO is on-page factors analysis.There are many On-Page analysis techniques which should be applied to a new website.

Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:26 am

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From my point of view first step should be "create meta tags for all pages"